I just heard the internet breathe a collective sigh of relief, didn’t I? ‘Cause I know y’all’ve been waiting for it.

1. Speaking of Blissfully Domestic, did you know that we are going to be re-launching a super cool huge new site in the next few months!? And along with that comes the need for more contributors. We are expanding in all areas and adding some new topics.

If you are interested in being considered for one of these topics, please email me at lookingtowardsheaven [at] gmail [dot] com and let me know the topic. We’ve already had tremendous response to our calls for writers. And guess what – we still need more! THAT’S how big it is gonna be!

New topics-

Gardening

Blogging (how-to, tips)

Parenting -Special Needs

Finances

Green/Eco Living

Entertaining

Decorating

Crafts

We are expanding these areas-

Decorating

Etsy love

Cooking

Parenting

Crafts for kids

Crafting (tutorials, tips)

Beauty

Celebrity buzz

2. I am adding blog design to my professional repertoire. For now, I am looking for 2 or 3 guinea pigs [ok – I know that no guinea pigs read my blog; maybe they do, but they just don’t know how to type or spell] bloggers who will allow me to beautify their blogs. I will be doing Blogger (new and classic), WordPress and Typepad. If you are interested in allowing me to do a FREE design for you, please email me at the same address as above.

3. I know that everybody and their grandma has been popping up doing blog design, but with over 112.8 million blogs out there, I think there is room for me.

4. Are you attending SheSpeaks? Be sure to head over to Lysa’s blog and add your blog to the Mr. Linky so that we can all nose around each others blogs before meeting.

5. I love this post at Anne Jackson/FlowerDust’s blog asking what things we feel we can’t say at church or around other Christians. Mine’s on there. Along with nearly 200 others.

6. Did you know that WalMart carries a carrot cake ice cream? I love carrot cake (it was our wedding cake) and I worried it would be disgusting. Ummm, unfortunately not. I could eat a gallon for breakfast.

7. It has chunks of cream cheese frosting in it.

8. You can thank me later. But first, you must run out an purchase a gallon (or 10).

9. Something else you will surely thank me for [when you realize you’ve wasted all day] is this game.

It’s all so fascinating, watching these climbers test their bodies and press onward and upward. It seems crazy to me. But then again, I played soccer because I thought the boys who played soccer were cute, so what do I know about athletic commitment and determination.

1. Is anyone else completely surprised that Russell let Tim back up on the mountain after the stuff he pulled last year? I couldn’t believe it when they showed his mug in the previews for the season. And the previews for next week’s episode seems to suggest more of the same from him! Who pays tens of thousands of dollars for a stroll? He must get his money from sponsors…

2. Did Betsey REALLY think she was going to be able to summit? What was Russell’s first clue? When she put her ice climbing shoes on the wrong way and backwards?

3. And Mogens? I am just flat-out concerned about Mogens’ sanity. The man is trying, AGAIN, to summit without oxygen. I couldn’t give birth without oxygen, let alone climb a 30,000 foot mountain.

4. Did the altitude mess with David Tait’s reasoning? I can’t imagine the scale of what he is attempting: a double traverse – summiting, going down the other side and back up and down again. I am just so worried about him! (yeah, I know, it’s recorded; nothin’ I can do about the outcome…)

5. Finally – WHO CLIMBS A 30,000 foot MOUNTAIN BECAUSE OF A BET IN A BAR? I did look Rod up online, and he is a world record climber… but still. Most people are content to just do stupid belly tricks when drinking.